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    It is not the case that Being true, first, and immediate are the central conditions belonging to the definition of principles, whereas being better known qualifies principles only with respect to the conclusion.

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    • 1.For Aristotle, 'better known by nature' and 'better known to us' are both epistemic conditions that determine what counts as a genuine starting point for demonstration.
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    • 2.A proposition that is true and immediate but entirely unknown cannot function as a principle, since principles must be capable of grounding actual scientific knowledge.
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    • 3.Therefore, epistemic accessibility is partly constitutive of principlehood, not merely a relational qualifier added after the definition is fixed.
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    • 1.Frege and the logicist tradition hold that the primitiveness of logical axioms is inseparable from their self-evidence, making cognitive immediacy intrinsic to their status as first principles.
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    • 2.If self-evidence is intrinsic to axiom-hood rather than merely relational, then 'being better known' cannot be cleanly separated from the definitional core of a principle.
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    • 1.Being true, first, and immediate concern what the principles are in themselves
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    • 2.Properties belonging to a thing's definition concern what it is in itself
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    • 3.Being better known is a qualification of principles relative to the conclusion, not intrinsic to them
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